Implementation of the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014

The Federal Communications Commission (``Commission'') amends its rules to implement certain provisions of the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014. Collectively, those provisions: Extend to January 1, 2020 the good faith negotiation requirements applicable to multichannel video programming distributors (``MVPDs'') and television broadcast stations, and the exclusive contract prohibition applicable to such broadcast stations; prohibit same-market television broadcast stations from coordinating negotiations or negotiating on a joint basis for retransmission consent except under certain conditions; prohibit a television broadcast station from limiting the ability of an MVPD to carry into its local market television signals that are deemed ``significantly viewed'' or that otherwise are permitted to be carried by the MVPD, with certain exceptions; and eliminate the ``sweeps prohibition'' in the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (``the Act'').